We help farms grow their profits while building a more sustainable future.
At Adaviv, we team up with growers to make cultivation simpler. Using lean methods and the latest in AI, we help you focus on smarter decisions, stand out from the competition, and grow your profits.
Our team
Born at MIT, our diverse team combines global talent with a shared vision: using AI to boost productivity, support workers, protect ecosystems, and secure the world’s food supply.
Founding Team
Ian Seiferling
Dr. Ian Seiferling co-founded Adaviv while holding a Postdoctoral Associate position at MIT and his background and interests bridge plant science, agriculture, image processing and data science.
As an entrepreneur and technologist at heart, Ian is guiding Adaviv's mission to help every indoor farm become highly profitable and sustainable through enhanced Plant-Intelligence and Lean Cultivation tools.
Originally from the prairie grain belt provinces of Canada, Ian is passionate about using his skills to make a meaningful impact on sustainability and climate.
Moe Vazifeh
Moe Vazifeh has been instrumental in driving Adaviv’s technical development in both hardware and software since its inception. With a Ph.D. in theoretical quantum physics and extensive experience in advanced scientific fields such as complex modeling and optimization, Moe brings a unique and diverse skill set to the team.
Moe’s impressive experience leading multi-organization projects at MIT, coupled with his service as a referee for prestigious journals such as Science Robotics, reflects his reputation as an expert in the field. His focus on modeling human mobility and optimizing transportation through large-scale data analysis has earned him numerous media coverages in publications such as Nature, Wired, Wall Street Journal and the MIT Technology Review.
Julian Ortiz
Julian leads product and business development for Adaviv as COO. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, a B.A. in Economics, a BSc. in Industrial Engineering, and a Master’s in Economics. While at MIT, he was President of the MIT Agriculture Club and earned a Sustainability Certificate.
Previously, Julian spent three years at McKinsey, focusing on operations and economic development across South America. He co-founded RedES CAR, a sustainability consultancy that has trained 400+ SMEs. He was also a leader in Impact Investing, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and SEID (Sloan Entrepreneurs in International Development) clubs.
Born and raised in Colombia, Julian’s passion for agriculture comes from his grandparents, farmers in Valle del Cauca.
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Our Story
Idea incepted by cofounders while working at MIT as researchers.
2018
Adaviv was cofounded and became part of two highly selective Accelerators at MIT - DesignX and DeltaV.
Started farm-centric design thinking and data collection at two pilot sites in Florida and Massachusetts
2019
Raised a Pre-seed round and started the engineering of the first version of the software and scoutbot technology.
Closed Seed Round. Commercialized the Lean Cultivation Platform with first few customers.
2021
Expanded to large-scale commercial greenhouse farms and across the US. Commercial deployments of its ground-based plug and play scoutbot Mantis.
2022
Development of the patented fully autonomous Scoutbot system - Ladybug.
2023
Joined MIT STEX25 through an invitation by MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program.
Launched Field & Farm - advanced farm labor planning, scheduling and crop health optimization tools powered by Adaviv AI.
Adaviv: Bringing Plant-Level Data and Insights to Agriculture
Ian Seiferling, Co-Founder & CEO, Adaviv
Adaviv provides a cultivation productivity tool to growers of high-value crops and enables them to de-risk while improving, top and bottom lines via increased yield and quality, while also gaining labor and resource savings. The crop care software operates in greenhouses and indoor farms, providing early alerts of pests, diseases and stress and tracks plant growth for continual cultivation improvement over every crop cycle.
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